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UNITED SETE@ ATENT FFICE.

DANIEL WINSLOW, OF VESTBROOK, AND PERLEY D. GUMMINGS, 0F PORTLAND,MAINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,979, dated August 30, 1853.

To a whom @t may concern:

Be it known that we, DANIEL YWINsLow, of TWestbrook, and PERLEY D.CUMMINGS, of Portland, in t-he county of Cumberland and State of Maine,have invented a new and useful or. improved Contrivance for Filing orHolding Papers or Bills; and we do hereby declare that the same is fullydescribed and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, letters, figures., and references thereof.

Uf the said drawings, Figure l, denotes a top view, F ig. 2, a sideview, Fig. 3, an end view, Fig. 1l, a transverse section, and F ig. 5, alongitudinal section, of our improved bill. holder. y

lt is formed in part, of two plates a, b, of nietal, each of which has alip c, turned at an angle from each end of it as seen in the drawings,those lips of the lower plate being made to stand upward from andatright angles to it-while those of the upper plate project downwardperpendicular from it as seen in the drawings. Each plate has also itstwo side edges bent down toward it as seen at (l, (Z, e, e, the parts ofthe upper plate so bent down, being made respectively to cover twoendless elastic bands j', g, and it necessary or desirable a designatingcard 7L. Each of the elastic bands is laid between the plate and thepart to be bent down upon it, which done, such part is forced downt-oward the plate and on the band, with a power suflicient to enable itto firmly hold the band, or the band and designating card in place.rllhe parts e, e, of the lower plate are so bent as to form with theplate flat tubes for the reception of the elastic bands, they (thetubes) being made so as to allow of the free expansion or contract-ionof the bands, when the two plates are either drawn apart, or allowed toapproach each other.

The application of the bill holder to a le of papers is shown in Fig. 6,which denotes a perspective view of the same, A, being the tile, and B,the bill holder.

The object of the four lips, c, c, c, c, is to prevent the bills wheninserted in or removed either fro-m the top or bottom of the tile in theholder from wearing or injuring the elastic bands. The object of thetubular lips or parts, e, e, is to protect the bands from wear, andallow their free expansion and contraction. The object of the upperlips, (l, d, is to hold the bands, or the bands and designating card inplace.

lNe do not claim a file or bill holder asmade of two plates of wood, orpasteboard or metal held together and upon the file of papers by one ormore elastic bands, but- VVhat we claim as our invention is- Thecombination of the plates a and with the elastic bands f and g soarranged as that the side edges of the top plate shall be bent down uponthe bands and hold them securely while the side edges of the bottomplate are turned, but left far enough from the bottom plate, for thebands to move freely between them and the said plate; the edge lips ofboth plates being so bent inward and rounded on the corners as toprotect the bands from being ehafed or worn as described.

ln testimony whereof we, have hereto set our signatures,this third dayof March A. D. 1853.

DANIEL wiNs'Low. [Le] PERLEY D. CUMMINGS. [1.. s]

`Witnesses WM. H. VooD, J. N. WINsLow.

